General Chat

Good Morning Sue,

Hope you are now recovered from the flight home.

You seem to have taken the nice weather with you. It has poured with rain today, and more forecast tomorrow, but Sunday looks good.

Did you get a big welcome home from the grand children?

:-D

Has Linda gone to bed? :-(

Hello friends :-)

I too have fond memories of standing in the smoke on bridges, choking, and covered in smuts :-D

Something today's children will never know......

Goodnight Linda - sleep well.

Oops.I went to sleep on the sofa, so I had better go to bed :-(

I am glad that you were able to go on the train, it is nice to do something different.

We have steam trains on the North Yorks Moors railway, they remind me of my childhood as well. We used to stand on a footbridge over the railway and choke in the smoke. Odd the things which entertained us as children

I spoke to Sue on my ipad yesterday using |face time which is like Skype, she was in bed :-D

I really must go to bed, i hope she gets up soon to chat to you

Linda you certainly had an entertaining journey home :-(

Funny when you are an unwilling witness to one of life's little dramas.

People are such interesting creatures.................. :-D

I had a very enjoyable evening yesterday. The Tal-y-Llyn railway were running a special evening excursion through the mountains and valleys up to Abergynolwyn.
An hour there, and an hour back.
When we got to Abergynolwyn we got off the train into the refreshment room, served cream scones and tea/coffee.
So good to travel on a steam train again, the noise of the track, coal smoke, the whistle only a steam train can sound - very nostalgic.

Archie was well behaved, and now I know I can get on and off a train, though the step was very steep, but not as steep as the service railway that runs through the village. The new carriages are much higher than the platform, so out of bounds to the elderly or disabled.

Hoping Sue is not still overhung :-D

All in all the bloke was very understanding, the woman who I have seen before was really hamming it up. Yes she had cut her finger, but I would have expected something along the lines of a severed artery to justify her performance.

The guard brought her to an empty table opposites me for most of the journey. She brought the man down so they could exchange details. The man was keeping her updated on the status of the laptop which at first would start up but the screen wouldn't work. Eventually the screen did work, but the scratch pad wouldn't work. She went from assuring him she would replace the laptop with one of a similar age, to trying to persuade him to let her buy him a mouse and a dongle so he could use it that way.

She told him it was his fault because he hadn't stood up to put the bottle up for her, after all she was only five foot three and was flustered. She had a right go at him because he said his home contents insurance didn't cover items outside the home. He was some sort of workman who lived up North but worked in London, as soon as she found that out, she was telling him how intelligent she was and how she understood about computers while he didn't He was very polite, I probably would have blown my top with her by then.

I have had a haircut today so I no longer look like a sheepdog. After I got back, I went to the supermarket and the heavens opened,so the current look is more like drowned rat

:-(

Sue ....... that is indeed a small world!!


Linda ..................... I guess that could have been quite funny, there had not been damage done.

Goodnight Linda <3

Time for bed I think, enjoy your day <3

:-(

I am, but I am wondering where my Aussies are :-D

Hi Linda - glad to be home?

It is a small world Sue

Oh dear Linda - sounds interesting :-D we listened to a young couple demand a cot for their baby. They wouldn't allow the flight attendant to talk. When he finally got a word in he told them that they would get the cot after takeoff. Of course they didn't apologise.

Sylvia - what a strange thing to happen. I am in a group on FB who all grew up in the town I grew up in. One woman who I didn't know asked if I was related to a certain man. When I said he was my FIL she told me that she and her OH had bought his house :-)

Well that was an interesting journey back. We were just setting off when a small woman attempted to put a bottle of red wine up onto the rack. It rolled off and landed on some poor blokes Mac book pro laptop which was on the table. The bottle exploded, so there was wine and glass everywhere. The woman cut her thumb really badly attempting to clean it up.

The train guard had to come and bandage the woman up. The poor guard spent half the journey filling forms in. The laptop was killed, listening to the negotiations between the two parties was quite funny.

You were lucky to find that Sylvia, I haven't found estate agents details fir anywhere I have lived, but it would be interesting to look

I had a strange experience earlier tonight ..........................


I was on another site with a few friends, and we were talking about the typical English semi with it's 3 bedrooms and 2 Reception rooms, etc, and whether it was a small or large house .............................


My brother used to live in one, he bought it in 1958 or so, as a new build on a brand new private estate near Belle Vue in Manchester


He died in September 1990, and my sister-in-law sold the house very shortly after.

I have to admit that I had forgotten the number of the house after almost 25 years, although not the street.


I googled the street, found a site that had houses for sale in that area, and zoomed in on one, then used the link on the other site to show my friends what I was talking about ......................



and 2 hours later realised that, yes, that was indeed my brother's old house :-0


There were some major changes inside ........... most notably knocking out the wall between the 2 downstairs "reception rooms", and gas central heating installed, but otherwise it was little changed.


My sis-i-l sold it in early 1993 for about £35,000 or £36,000 because it needed a lot of work done ........... it had sold in 2000 for £48,000


I don't think the buyers had made much profit after doing the necessary maintenance and upgrading!



But what a weird experience looking round that house after so long!


BTW ................. Google street view showed the garden was as bad as when my brother lived there :-)

Linda ............


safe trip back home tomorrow xxx

Hi Sue, and everyone


so glad that you got home safely, and with not too bad a journey. We all know how cramped and tiring those long journeys are xxx



Tec ............. that 40s night sounds like a lot of fun :-)




It has got hot again here ................. and we re going to have at least a week more of it.

I just wish the nights were cooler ......... I had 2 fans on last night, and that made the bedroom very pleasant, but OH retreated down to the basement where it was cool enough for him to have a duvet over him!




take care everyone





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